Sport: April Folly

An ancient baseball institution is preseason prognostication. Although
most baseball fans are well aware of the fact that April forecasts are
foolish, last week on the eve of the widely ballyhooed centennial
season, they went ahead predicting how the major-league teams would
finish in October. Most weighty predictions came from the baseball
writers who had just returned from a two-month training-camp survey of
sore arms, batting averages and rookies' temperaments.

Polled by the Associated Press, these experts prophesied that the season
would wind up with the teams in this order: